Landscapes

"Tumacacori Luminarias"

A procession of souls floats past the Tumacacori Mission on Christmas Eve, when the southern Arizona mission is lit by a thousand or more luminarias.
Behind the lens.
On Christmas Eve, the park service and volunteers line luminarias around and on top of this historic mission. Each luminaria is a small tea candle resting in sand inside a brown paper sack. You can read about the creation of this image here.